heightened (?.)
- accelerated
- aggrandized
- aggravated
- amplified
- annoyed
- augmented
- beefed-up
- bloated
- boosted
- broadened
- deepened
- deliberately provoked
- elevated
- embittered
- enhanced
- enlarged
- exacerbated
- exasperated
- expanded
- extended
- heated up
- hiked
- hotted up
- increased
- inflated
- intensified
- irritated
- jazzed up
- magnified
- multiplied
- proliferated
- provoked
- raised
- reinforced
- soured
- spread
- stiffened
- strengthened
- swollen
- tightened
- widened
- worse
- worsened